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“I would prefer not to.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― The Merchant of Venice
― The Merchant of Venice
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
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